Juror’s Choice Award winner Naghmeh Navabi focuses on her roots and identity as a woman in the Islamic world. She creates her images by delving into the relationship between society and the individual. While her works are grounded on feminism, they remind us of pains and longing rooted in experiences. Seeing how Navabi presents important themes of the times with her fresh images, I am curious in how her work would match with the invaluably traditional collotype process. Her works gave me a sense that the layer of time will stand out on its own as an unique expression.

– Kimi Himeno Juror, Hariban Award 2019

Artist Statement

Naghmeh Navabi is an Iranian artist based in London. “A home no longer mine “is her response to the recent event in Iran about compulsory hijab were Iranian women risk their lives to fight for their freedom. They feel exile in their own country and some of them need to leave their homeland. Freedom always has a price.

Bio

Naghmeh Navabi is Iranian visual artist based in London. She studied painting in Tehran Sureh University and graduated in photography from London college of Communication in 2018. In her practice, she is mostly concentrated on the notion of feminism, women issues and identity inspired by her own experience as woman, and memories of her motherland.